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Does it come in two versions? One for right handed and one for left handed people?

I look that the stupid trackpad placement and then promptly lose all interest in the laptop, the specs become completely irrelevant.

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I doubt it. That is one thing Razer are notoriously bad at supporting, left handers. I don't think they've released left handed models of any of their mice for years. They have "ambidextrous" models, but all that really translates to is "poor ergonomics" models.

EDIT: To clarify they do sell left handed mice, but to my knowledge they're all models from years ago. For example, I'm unaware of any left handed models with Chroma lighting.

I believe the trackpad is laid out that way so that you can comfortably rest your left hand on WASD and right hand on trackpad for mouselook, when playing FPS or RTS type games. For non-gaming uses or left-handed users, I agree it is a complete non-starter. Also I tend to think that if you are serious enough to spend $4k on a gaming laptop, you can probably just shell out for a decent mouse instead of using the trackpad.

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